Pro Gamers to play for free on Steam?
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17 May 2011, 12:59
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An interesting idea has passed through the lips of Valve's top dog Gabe Newell suggesting that popular gamers (he obviously was referring to Krosan) should be allowed onto games on the Steam platform for free. He states that current payment methods such as purchase, pay per play and in game micro transactions are inherently flawed! "The industry has this broken model, which is one price for everyone. That's actually a bug, and it's something that we want to solve." Going on to suggest that people who attract players to a game should be allowed to play without paying however for 'jerks' (Insert ET Player name here) - he states "A real jerk that annoys everyone, they can still play," suggests Newell. "But a game is full price and they have to pay an extra hundred dollars if they want voice."
Source: The Register
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most popular skilled players will get games for free though I would imagine through their orgs.
hint, it's not 1
here is a question
How many people play more than 1 game at high level so that they are known to be highskilled in many games?
hint, it's not 1
OH GASP
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:) nice write up, wondering who decides on who's pro enough for such a concept though
And the idea is retarded by itself, v.i.p's? lol...everyone should pay the same..welcome to real life.
In exactly what part of life do V.I.P.'s get the same treatment as "normal" people? Exactly, none. VIP's always get things cheaper if not free, in football, financial industries, entertainment i.e. singers a/o moviestars, so why not gamers? :)
i.e. get 5 friends to buy Portal 2 and you get a steam voucher to get your next game
i dont see how you can judge who is a jerk and who is a nice guy in games, surely thats down to server administrators and relying on a post-match statistic system that allows you to rate your opponents which is open to abuse and slightly bias towards punishing rather than rewarding players.
sorry bad idea.
Gabe just styling
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